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Re:ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple o... on Monday August 31, 2026 @07:44PM (#49516190)
Have you taken a look at the source? A lot of code is missing, and more gets redacted with every release. It's pretty clear apple don't welcome contributions and make source buildable
Re:Twitter raving about one-shot games with Sol-5.6 and Opus 5 on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @06:18AM (#49081772)
What you posted is a captcha page https://xcancel.com/antibot/captcha
Re:Perfetto: Swiss Army Knife for Linux Client Tracing on Saturday November 01, 2025 @01:10AM (#45779407)
This kind of thing always feels too slow to use. Every time I open my trace in it, it always lags and requires a few seconds to zoom in or zoom out.
Re:Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid on Saturday February 03, 2024 @05:22AM (#39239050)
The long press does not work on the Android mobile app, although it does work on the web page.

Ask HN: Alt in-house app distrib after Google Play account close for low usage?

Posted by yeko on Saturday January 20, 2024 @09:25AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Google intends to close our Google Play development account due to its underutilization for hosting our own applications. As it has been a valuable tool for app management, we find ourselves in a predicament. Could you please advise us on alternative options to handle our apps? It is imperative that we avoid the manual installation and updating of APK files by our team.

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Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly on Sunday March 05, 2023 @09:24PM (#35036789)
Sometimes it is not possible due to bugs in browsers.

For example, how do you know if calling a API will crash the browser?

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=118336...

Re:Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you ... on Sunday October 31, 2021 @09:03PM (#29062057)
There is unofficial open source driver for tablet from these brands.

https://github.com/OpenTabletDriver/OpenTabletDriver

Re:Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:25PM (#28794018)
However, the restriction only apply to asop/pixel devices. For other devices, often there is a way to extract unique id/ imei with hidden api without any premissions.
Re:Inkscape 1.1 on Monday May 24, 2021 @08:52PM (#27271510)
> I was able to open a .ai file,

Actually it doesn't, Affinity open the embbded pdf in Ai file, some metadata like textframe/alignment does not exist in pdf.